Tuesday, August 30, 2016

They did. After removing it and, presumably, scouring it clean for the new clientele.

Benjamin Shaykin shared a pic on Twitter and noted: "two kids walked up all excited while I was taking this. 'I think it’s opening tomorrow!' one said to his friend."

Of course.

On Gay Pride Day in 2008, restaurant Florent closed its doors, forced to shutter after 23 years when the landlord raised the rent from $6,000 to $50,000 per month. On his famous menu board, Morellet spelled out an optimistic thought in white plastic letters, “REAL ESTATE GOES DOWN / NYC SURVIVES.”

4 comments:

"I'll have the turkey club sandwich and an 'airy, easy tee', please."Reminds me, ever-sadly, of the Scribner's book store on Fifth Avenue that sells only shmates by Sephora. One is constantly teased over the fact that a New York of the past once supported this (now both changeling addresses).

The sign business has me so ambivalent. I'm glad to see beautiful old signs saved, but when they're "repurposed" for such different ends they become a sad, faux version of older times - just empty decorative motifs.

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